Effective field theory search for high-energy nuclear recoils using the XENON100 dark matter detectorShow others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 1172017 (English)In: Physical Review D: covering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, ISSN 2470-0010, E-ISSN 2470-0029, Vol. 96, no 4, article id 042004Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We report on weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) search results in the XENON100 detector using a nonrelativistic effective field theory approach. The data from science run II (34 kg x 224.6 live days) were reanalyzed, with an increased recoil energy interval compared to previous analyses, ranging from (6.6-240) keV(nr). The data are found to be compatible with the background-only hypothesis. We present 90% confidence level exclusion limits on the coupling constants of WIMP-nucleon effective operators using a binned profile likelihood method. We also consider the case of inelastic WIMP scattering, where incident WIMPs may up-scatter to a higher mass state, and set exclusion limits on this model as well.
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2017. Vol. 96, no 4, article id 042004
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-146992DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.042004ISI: 000408704800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85029119274OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-146992DiVA, id: diva2:1142084
2017-09-182017-09-182022-10-19Bibliographically approved